On Monday, window film installation specialists installed a blackout filter at the entrances and windows of the Federal Police Supervision Authority (PF) in Brasilia, where Jair Bolsonaro (PL) has been detained since Saturday. The former president was seen and photographed there on Sunday, after receiving a visit from former First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro.
According to members of the National Front, at the time the photo was taken, Bolsonaro was moving between the visiting room and the room where he was being held.
According to the company, these movements follow the organization’s security protocols and therefore should not be recorded anymore.
Bolsonaro was detained in pretrial detention on Saturday morning, on the order of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF). The former president was transferred to the National Front’s monitoring body.
Moraes’ decision was taken in response to a request from the National Front, which claimed the need to ensure public order. The company stated that the vigil called by Senator Flavio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), the son of the former president, in the residential complex where Bolsonaro was under house arrest, could lead to “unrest” and “an environment conducive to his escape.”
Moraes said: “The content of the call for the aforementioned ‘protest’ indicates the possibility of an attempt to use supporters of the accused Jair Messias Bolsonaro, in a gathering that will be held in the place of his house arrest, for the purpose of obstructing the monitoring of precautionary measures and house arrest.”
The STF Minister also highlighted in his decision that Bolsonaro attempted to violate his electronic ankle bracelet, in the early hours of Saturday. The former president himself admitted this to the agents who went to his house to verify what happened.
This Monday, Moraes’ decision on preventive detention was approved by the other ministers of the First Committee of the Specialized Technical Committee, in an extraordinary virtual session.